Just a few of my favorite reads...

How many of you log into your blog, go straight to your news feed and find yourself clicking on certain people's blogs to read first? Maybe it is because they are always having something funny to say, maybe they are expecting a baby soon and you love reading their progress story or are looking forward to updates on furniture or is it that they are always decorating their home in the cutest ways that you just cannot resist checkin' out what is going on over at their house? I know I am always doing this and am also always on the lookout for some new blogs to get addicted to. I love finding a new blogger that I just feel like I can read her blog and know that IRL we would be really good friends. So I thought today I would share with you some of my favorite bloggers, just in case you have been looking for a new blogger to meet!

• Meet Miss Ashley from over at Rustic Living! I just recently started following Ashley's blog maybe a month ago and I immediately fell in love with it. She is a country girl just like myself so I know a lot of the stuff she is writing about and we have similar tastes. Ashley's house is decorated so cute in Country Chic decorations and she comes up with the best ideas to re-use vintage items for anything from cheese grader turned earring holder to her super cute coffee station. I am telling you this girl is a walking dictionary for decorating your home and if all her cute stuff doesn't impress you much then you will be blown out of the water when you visit her store. She makes gorgeous pillows, coasters and table runners. If you are a country girl and are not a follower of Ashley you have got to head over to her blog!

 

• If you are looking for a good laugh you need to head over to Recently Roached. Miss Jena Roach is an amazing blogger and is always having something witty to say. I quickly found myself laughing whenever I read her blog that I one day I had some free time and went back to the beginning of her blog and read it from the beginning to current. Jena is a lifestyle blogger and I just love reading about her adventures with cooking in the kitchen to her most recent rant about running with your husband. 

• Sarah at Cozy Cottage Cute is a blog I actually just came across yesterday. I have ooohhhiiing and aaahhhhiiing over her house! Everything is just so crisp and clean and so organized and to top it off her and her hubster just bought a second house that they are flipping into a rental home for their parents. How awesome is that?! I cannot wait to see what they do with the new place!

• Miss Mallory over at Hayseed Homemakin is another country girl with the cutest posts of her country themed home. She is another blogger I actually just found this week actually through pinterest and have immediately fallen inlove with everything on her blog. Mallory has some cute decorating ideas up her sleeve and provides lots of tutorials for the stuff she does.

•  I started reading this girly's blog months ago when I found a pin of her awesome chalkboard posts of her pregnancy. Jessica over at Little Baby Garvin. She has since had little baby garvin and now I just enjoy reading her blog and checking out whats going on with the remodeling of their new home! If you are an expecting mommy you have got to go back in time on this blog and check out her posts, she has so many awesome ideas and was the cutest little pregger girl ever!

Are any of you followers of these blogs already?! or do you recommend some of your favorite blogs? I always love adding to my reading list!

Lots of Pinterest Going On Over Here

Once again I am linking up over at The Vintage Apple with some of my favorite pins from Pinterest this week.

I have been finding myself pinning a lot of stuff from the Home Decor category on Pinterest. With those pins I have also been pretty down in the dumps because we don't have a place of our own yet to put these pins into action. We aren't sure yet if we are just going to rent when we get married and keep saving our money to buy a place sometime after that or if we are going to be pinching pennies for the next months leading up to the wedding and purchasing a house then. I know that purchasing our first home is going to be very stressful and I don't know if that is something we want to be dealing with while we are planning the wedding. But all of that aside here are a couple of my favorite pins recently. 

1. I absolutely love the frame above the bed and how easy does that look to make?! It came from Chipping with Charm and her blog is really cute. I had to add her to my reading list.

2. I am loving the orange in this bedroom and I know Anthony would too!

3. I ended up adding this pin to Pinterest myself after I wandered over to Racha's blog, My Champagne Taste. You have got to go see her home tour on her blog. 

4. When we get our own I place I am hoping and praying that we have a wide enough door way to put up some barn door sliders and have something like this.

5. How much better does this shelf with the hooks on it look compared to the normal rods that are in most homes? I love it and it provides for more decoration options.

These are 6 pins I made this week that I am going to try to do this month. How many of us find ourselves pinning pins that we want to do but never get to them? I know I do and I am tired of looking through my boards and not having anything to say that I have actually done by pinning them (well aside from my wedding boards) So for this month I am going to attempt to do each one of these pins or atleast my version of them with what I can come up with.

Along with it being Pinteresting Wednesday it is also Wedding Wednesday over here. I don't really have any wedding announcements to make other than we got scheduled for Pre-Cana and are also getting really close to getting our engagement pictures done. I was hoping to have them done by the third week of July however the weather we have been having is so hot, like Channing Tatum HOT! So I talked to Blaire and we are going to do them more towards the end of July or possibly August. But here are some pins I made this week that are more geared towards my wedding planning:

1. I was originally wanting my bridesmaids to wear short and different styled dresses however after coming across this pin I fell in love with everything about it! The color, the look, the simplicity. 

2. I am thinking about making matching hangers for my girls for their dresses to be hanging on.

3. These pocket knifes are awesome! I was telling Anthony about them last night and he said that would be a great idea for groomsmen gifts.

4. Ever since I started planning this wedding 7 months ago I have loved lace dresses! here is another favorite!

Weekend Recap

So who else was thrown off on celebrating July 4th since it feel on a Wednesday this year? I know we were. It really didn't seem like much of a holiday but my Grandpa and Grandma Kuhn were staying down at Seneca Lake for the whole week so on Friday Anthony and I skipped town and headed to the lake to spend the weekend with them. We had lots of fun sitting around the campfire, making smores, going on a couple boat rides and trying to catch fish which turned into a tragedy for me. That awesome fishing pole I got in the Outerbanks...

Yes that gorgeous fishing pole that I loved so much! Well it was 10:00 or so p.m. and I was bored because I didn't have any bites so I left it sitting beside Anthony who said he was going to use it. Well not even 10 minutes later I hear something along with Anthony cussing and yelling at me to grab his phone...but it was all to late! My pretty fishing pole was gone...off floating in some fish's mouth in the lake! I was so upset that it was gone. Anthony immediately decided he is getting me another one for my birthday! The only problem we are having with that is that the pole has only been seen at the bait store we were at in the Outerbanks. So I am hoping he is able to find me another one!

Anyways other than the fish at Seneca Lake being thieves we had a great time and the fireworks display was amazing! It was a whole half hour of fireworks that were loud, gorgeous and had to have been really expensive for the park to put off. We are definitely planning on going back next summer to watch them again.

Fridays Letters

Dear AEP and Powerline guys, Thank-you for all you have done so far getting people's power restored as soon as humanly possible however can you please weasle your way on over to Vroom road because we are still without power. 7 days now we have been without power and water! It is absolutely insane. Pretty please pay our road a visit and restore our power asap, please and thank-you

Dear Dad, you have been gone for 6 days and the house feels weird without you. I am so happy for you that you were able to check something off your list of things to do and it must have been lots of fun riding the Dragon Tail on your bike and then spending a week in Charleston with Uncle Brad but I still cannot wait for you to be home again. Love you and be careful on your ride back home. xoxo

Dear Seneca Lake, I cannot wait to come spend the next two days at your campground with Grandpa and Grandma Kuhn. We got a little sneak peak on Tuesday night by going out on a boat ride and eating campfire food but spending the next two days there will be mucho better!

Dear Anthony, I am so happy that you got the next two days off! this is very rare...a friday and a saturday off! I can't wait to spend it over at Seneca by going fishing, boating, tubing and watching the fireworks with JK, Shalene, Grandpa and Grandma it is going to be so much fun. 

Dear Tank, I cannot decide what would be better for you. If we take you over to Seneca Lake I know you would have lots of fun running around being the BIG dog campground! However the next days are supposed to be excruciatingly hot and you won't have a cool place to go to cool down. If I leave you home you can hangout in the basement and be all cooled off. I don't know what to do buddy?! I know Anthony will be all for you staying home but it makes Mommy feel bad...ugh what to do? what to do?

Dear Ohio Bloggers, I cannot wait until our meet-up on Sunday at the Cheese Cake Factory. It is going to be so much fun and I can't wait to meet everyone. To all you girls that are in Ohio you should really come to this! Leigh Anne over at Hart to Heart has planned this whole get-together if you are planning on going head over to her blog to link up that you will be there and to get all the details. Hope to see ya'all there!

Wedding Wednesday Pt. 5

I love doing my Wedding Wednesday posts! However this is on Thursday because we don't have power and I was busy celebrating the Fourth yesterday with my family. I have been looking forward to this post especially and to tell you the truth aside from marrying my best friend and becoming Mrs. Fry this is probably my favorite thing about the wedding. A couple months ago when I browsing through Bobbi&Mike's  blog I came across this wedding that they did back in September 2011. I was especially drawn to it because Dawn's wedding dress is the dress I have been eyeing for a while now but as I was scrolling through then watched the slide show I fell in love with their table settings! They did mismatched china plates, how cute! Dawn said she shopped around for a year before their wedding collecting the table settings. I immediately decided that this was what I was going to do for my wedding. 

SO their wedding is my inspiration for our table settings. 

Photo credits go out to Bobbi and Mike Photography. Make sure you stop by their blog and check out their work. They are an amazing photography team and I love reading their blog!

My Grandma Price works at a local auction barn that holds auctions every Wednesday so I told her about my idea and she got me two sets at the auction then her friend Tina gave me another set. These sets have just been sitting around in boxes and I hadn't had a good chance to figure out what all I had and what I still need to buy so last weekend I got everything out and counted and oohed and awed at what I have!

I have 22 plates, 17 large bowls, 21 small plates, 24 saucers, 12 small bowls and 20 tea cups. 

Obviously I have a long way to go but there are quite a few auctions coming up that are going to have fine china. I am not really sure what we are going to do with the tea cups but we are definitely using the platters for the food to be on. As for glasses and silverware I am not too sure what to do about that, any ides?

Green hair...

I took these pictures from one of our many little fishing trips last week and was going to post them on Friday however the storm on Friday busted that bubble. So here they are today.

Anthony found me this awesome piece of wood that was laying in the rocks. It is now sitting in my room on top of my white shelf. 

 This is what I am usually found doing while Anthony is fishing. I loose patience really fast when the fish aren't biting so I quickly resort to a book and am happy to go for a couple hours. 

So yesterday I mentioned that we went swimming to pass the time since the power has been out. We pulled out Hi-Ho Cherry-O and some UNO cards. After a while we got a little bored of this so we decided to go to Grandpa and Grandma's pool.

 While we were playing with our "Madam" hairstyles Maddy realized that my hair was green!

Tank was like "oh no Momma what happened?"

 After some research online, texting Stephanie my hair stylist who is vacation til the 10th we headed to Walmart to get some supplies that we didn't already have on hand.

 We ended up mixing vinegar and lemon juice together and dumping that on my hair and letting it sit for 5 minutes. Instead of rinsing that we went ahead and left it on and used Prell and really hot water in an applicator bottle and put that on my hair. After letting it sit for 20 minutes I jumped in the shower, rinsed it out, washed my hair 2 more times with the Prell, once with Pert and then left my conditioner on there for a couple minutes then rinsed. After drying my hair the green had faded significantly but was still there. My plan is until Stephanie comes back is to keep using the Prell and Pert and maybe some of the vinegar and pray to God that it just fades away. If not my butt will be making an appointment to let the professional take care of this. Until then I am rocking a messy bun with the green pieces tucked away, not to be seen!

After the storm....

Who ever would have thought I would be so happy to return to work? on a Monday? Not me, but I was so happy to come into work today because our office actually has power, ac, cable, and internet compared to not having anything at home. Mindy and I were actually an hour early to work today.

So are all of you Ohio girls out there making it through all this craziness?! To those of you who don't know what is going on Friday night a huge storm came through that has wiped out a huge amount of the state's power and homes have been destroyed in some areas. We are still without power and are estimated to be without until the 8th. Yes I re-read that too...THE 8TH!...that is 10 days. Oh my goodness don't know if I want to wait that long but we don't really have a choice. On top of not having power we also do not have water because we are on well water. So for the past two days we have been bucketing water to our house from the pond for the animals. Remington is so mad because she is locked in her stall because there are trees fallen on the fence. Yesterday I had Molly so Maddy and I took her over to Grandma and Grandpa Kuhn's to go swimming and try to cool off. Little did I not know was since the pool wasn't circulating water through the jets that the chlorine was extremely high and my hair ended up turning green! yes green, but more on that tomorrow and my solution to this problem.

Last night while I was laying in bed, sweating like crazy I started praying to God that our power would come back on but then realized I was doing it all wrong I needed to be thanking God. Thanking God that we were all safe after the storm, thanking Him that all of our animals were ok, thanking Him that our house and barn are still standing, thanking Him for giving us amazing friends that let us borrow their generator so we don't loose all the meat in our freezer, thanking Him that even though we had a really stressful and scary week with Grandma that she is still with us and will be starting therapy soon and soon enough will be home and life can return to it normal chaos. I prayed for and am continuing my prayers for Grandma to have more positive days than negative, success in therapy and the strength to endure what she has to go through. It is going to be a long road but with these prayers I know God will help us through it all. I also prayed for the people of our community to get power as soon as physically possible for the power guys to do so and maybe then our crazy little town can return to its everyday business.